To:HIS MOTHER

Written:Written December 7 or 8, 1909Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Sent from Paris.

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      Moscow,Volume 37,

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MariaAlexandrovna Ulyanova,Davydov’s House, Apt. 4,Bozheninsky Street,Devichye Polye,Moscow,Russia

Motherdearest,

Ihave received your letter and Manya’s. A bigmercifor them. Today I received a second letter from Manyasha
with the pleasant news that there is no need for me to write
to our acquaintance a second time. I am worried that your
apartment is so cold; what will it he like in winter if the
temperature is only 12° now? You must not catch cold....
Is there nothing you can do? Perhaps you should put in
a small stove. That is often done here (we do not need it
because we have steam heating and it isverywarm), and
we did it in Siberia. So far there has been no great cold,
here, at any rate, but the winter is still to come.

Iam very, very grateful to Manyasha for the news. If
she should have an opportunity I should very much like
her to obtain for me the new Moscow agricultural statistics
(1907–09) and to find out (even from a shop) how muchIzvestiya zemleustroitelnykh komissiicosts; I cannot get this
publication through acquaintances and I need it.

Iembrace you fondly, my dear, and hope you are keeping
well. Best regards to Manyasha from me and from all of
us here.

Yours,V. U.